Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences. Jennifer Armintrout More Quotes by Jennifer Armintrout More Quotes From Jennifer Armintrout I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel. Jennifer Armintrout damsel-in-distress strong hands I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you. Jennifer Armintrout women want love No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between. It's about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness. The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit. ... Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen.(Armintrout, All Souls' Night, 367) Jennifer Armintrout butterfly sight night As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income. Jennifer Armintrout diversity white opportunity Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there. Jennifer Armintrout team reality america Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.' Jennifer Armintrout faults independent writing One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions." "And here I was assuming you didn't care about her." Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!" "And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots. Jennifer Armintrout dog hair men If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it. Jennifer Armintrout next faces way Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isnt allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body. Jennifer Armintrout apologizing body acceptance The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity. Jennifer Armintrout events emotional grief If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies. Jennifer Armintrout allies diversity justice The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option. Jennifer Armintrout position self attitude Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire. Jennifer Armintrout satire korea horror Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat. Jennifer Armintrout brushes easier impossible It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up. Jennifer Armintrout mess I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it. Jennifer Armintrout sorry mind doors I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time weren't dashing, international playboys. They were undead and surprisingly immature, considering the youngest was just over a hundred years old. Jennifer Armintrout men two years Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth. Jennifer Armintrout strong earth heaven Well, I always did want to go out in a Braveheart kind of way. I'll just have to think of something cool to yell before they cut my head off. Jennifer Armintrout cutting want thinking I'm sorry I'm not more cultured. I'll watch PBS. And cut people open for fun. Will that be better? Will you be less embarrassed to be my fledgling then? Jennifer Armintrout cutting sorry fun
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